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Higher education in turbulent times: navigating the transition from un-sustainability in a world dominated by technology
- Atlantic Technological University (Co. Galway)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the implications for higher education of a rapidly changing global context, where technologies play a role in the propagation of ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Energy Sustainability Engineering Technology
- Nova Scotia Community College (NS)
This program prepares students to meet the growing needs of employers in the rapidly expanding field of alternative energy, sustainability and energy systems management. Students are involved in energy auditing ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Environmental Physics Technology
- Missouri State University (MO)
In a world where climate change, its effects and consequences for mankind, and the human impact on the environment are common topics of discussion and study, this minor is essential ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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MS Green Technology
- University of Southern California (CA)
Green Technologies is a highly interdisciplinary degree program that emphasizes green systems and the environment, energy technology and efficiency, and sustainability and society. The discipline seeks opportunities for alternative sourcing ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Interdisciplinary Program of Nuclear Science, First Specialty: Energy & Environment (College of Nuclear Science)
- National Tsing Hua University
Based on the dual-specialty design, IPNS provides undergraduates a solid knowledge based on low carbon energy, such as nuclear, solar, and hydrogen energy, as well as environmental science and sustainable ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Energy Technology and Sustainable Society Program
- National Tsing Hua University
The plan of this course is to hope that after completing this course, students will have a deep understanding of the problems encountered in the global village, and based on ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Sustainability challenges in architectural education: assessment of an architectural technology course on the bioclimatic redesign of existing buildings in Greece
- National Technical University of Athens
During the last decades, the sustainable redesign of existing buildings has been gaining importance in both architectural practice and education. While based on the knowledge of the basic principles of ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Keeping Campus' Buildings Healthy: Managing 3D Printer Emissions for Occupant Safety and Health
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (TX)
- UL (Underwriters Laboratories) (IL)
Years of research prove that designing, operating and managing our buildings with a focus on good indoor air quality (IAQ) is essential to protect the health and productivity of building ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Shaping the Future with Heat-Free Print Technology
- Epson America (CA)
Institutions of higher learning are uniquely positioned to lead by example on environmental issues. One way to do this is by investing in heat-free printing technologies that reduce energy consumption ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Evaluation of a tertiary sustainability experiential learning program
- University of Melbourne (Victoria)
This paper aims to describe the development, promotion and evaluation of sustainability learning experience database (SLED), a university-curated database of sustainability experiences to augment formal student learning. Its purpose was ...
- Posted May 5, 2021
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Tools for assessing sustainability in service operations in higher education institutions
- Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
The objective is to analyze sustainability practices in service operations in three Higher Education Institutions of the Federal Network of Professional, Scientific and Technological Education in Brazil through a developed ...
- Posted May 5, 2021
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The wicked problem of teaching about wicked problems: Design thinking and emerging technologies in sustainability education
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
- Montpellier Business School (Montpellier)
In this paper, we explore the system-level challenges found in sustainability-focused education and consider how the intersections of design thinking and emerging technologies in augmented and virtual reality (AVR) can ...
- Posted April 21, 2021
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Exploring the coverage of environmental-dimension indicators in existing campus sustainability appraisal tools
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Despite the plethora of comprehensive review of campus sustainability assessment tools, reporting, and indicators in the extant literature, studies are absent specifically on campus-wide and spatial-based indicators in existing tools ...
- Posted April 8, 2021
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Education for Advancing the Implementation of the Bioeconomy Goals: An Analysis of Master Study Programmes in Bioeconomy
- Technical University of Crete
- Riga Technical University
Bioeconomy in Europe has become one of the leading courses for sustainable and resource-efficient development. Main aspects of bioeconomy: development of new technologies and processes, development of markets and competitiveness ...
- Posted April 8, 2021
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Universities and Multistakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Development: A Research and Technology Perspective
- Università degli Studi di Torino
- Politecnico di Torino
If we have any hope of achieving sustainability, we, as researchers, need to develop a new perspective on universities and multistakeholder engagement. Stakeholder theory teaches us that engaging stakeholders in ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Environmental Biotechnology Graduate Certificate
- University of Massachusetts Lowell (MA)
This certificate combines courses that explore the ecological impact of anthropogenic environmental change with courses that provide training in current biological technologies that can be brought to bear on environmental ...
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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Geography: Applied Geographic Technology (BS)
- Slippery Rock University (PA)
The Applied Geographic Technology program brings together new technologies in computer science, visualization, geographic information science, and remote sensing to examine the natural and human environment. Through intensive hands-on projects ...
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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Geographic Information Technology Minor
- Slippery Rock University (PA)
The Geographic Information Technology minor will help students discover how to use tools and technologies like computer science, visualization, geographic information science, and remote sensing to examine landscapes and environments.
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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Simulations Versus Case Studies: Effectively Teaching the Premises of Sustainable Development in the Classroom
- INCAE Business School (Alajuela)
The systemic complexity of sustainable development imposes a major cognitive challenge to students’ learning. Faculty can explore new approaches in the classroom to teach the topic successfully, including the use ...
- Posted March 5, 2020
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Biological & Agricultural Technology Management Major
- Auburn University (AL)
The goal of the Biological and Agricultural Technology Management program (BATM) is to produce graduates that use technology to solve problems. BATM graduates are practical problem solvers because of their ...
- Posted Feb. 3, 2020
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Faculty awareness of the economic and environmental benefits of augmented reality for sustainability in Saudi Arabian universities
- Curtin University
In recent decades, smart technology has been one of the major thought-provoking research subjects in the quest to meet the needs of society in ways that do not damage or ...
- Posted Aug. 2, 2019
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Social and institutional factors affecting sustainability innovation in universities: A computer re-use perspective
- UNSW Sydney (NSW)
With the wave of digitisation sweeping through the higher education sector, end-of-life outcomes for decommissioned computers will pose a serious sustainability challenge for higher education institutions. This challenge presents an ...
- Posted May 6, 2019
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Development and evaluation of a method to estimate the potential of decarbonisation technologies deployment at higher education campuses
- University of Limerick
This paper describes a method for the quantitative estimation of the potential of decarbonisation technologies deployed on Higher Education Campuses (HEC). This was developed to fill the need for a ...
- Posted May 6, 2019
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Environmental Technician Diploma
- Sheridan College (Ontario) (ON)
The demand for environmental technicians has never been higher. With an Environmental Technician diploma from Sheridan, students can build a successful career while helping to keep our air, water and ...
- Posted May 5, 2019
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Automated Gardening System with Solar Integration
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
Industrialized agriculture has benefitted our society by feed billions but is also adding a burden to the environment. Inefficient watering techniques and indiscriminate use of chemicals in much of today ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Digital Tools to Enhance Integrative Learning and Global Perspectives in Sustainability Studies
- Muhlenberg College (PA)
Teaching Sustainability Studies with a focus on problem solving and from a global perspective can be limited by confinement to a classroom at a single location. Here, I show how ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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CU Boulder Tests Behavior-Tracking Platform's Effect on Student Engagement in Sustainability
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
- PIPS Education Fund (NY)
What if a more engaged student was also a more successful student?' Research in fact bears this out. And 'what if there were an App that helped to deepen engagement ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Shorter showers? There's an App for that!
- University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (MA)
- NORESCO (NC)
Over the past 6 years, UMass Dartmouth has been tracking student's shower times. This has ranged from self-reported times, to specifically supported timed studies to now the development of ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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GreenTech LIU: A Digital Platform for Campus SDG Collaboration
- LIU Post (NY)
Sustainability and education for global citizenship are essential literacies for the 21st century. LIU Post's Center for Sustainability wants faculty and students to have powerful and effective digital tools ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Computer Networks Doing Their Part to be Sustainable - New Industry Standards
- The Sextant Group (PA)
College and University planners are challenged by the exploding demand for data services, as more and more devices are added to campuses. Administrators and students are asking whether this trend ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Do It Yourself Green Challenge - Cost Effective Way to Improve Health, Environment, & Climate Change
- My Open Road (CA)
87% of all human produced CO2 emissions comes from burning fossil fuel for electricity/heat, transportation, and industry. The transportation sector is the second largest source of CO2 emission. The ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Technology and Society, Energy Track Certificate
- Princeton University (NJ)
This cross-disciplinary certificate program is offered in partnership between the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and the Keller Center. It is targeted to students, both engineers/scientists and ...
- Posted Oct. 15, 2018
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Sustainable Technology BS
- Appalachian State University (NC)
The Bachelor of Science degree in Sustainable Technology helps students develop the skills needed to design, build and maintain technological systems that will help create a more sustainable world.
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- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Minor in Sustainable Technology
- Appalachian State University (NC)
Sustainable Technology reflects an approach to technological development, characterized by creative and sound engineering, that recognizes the social, environmental, political, economic, and technical aspects of a proposed technological solution to ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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CU Boulder PIPs Rewards App
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
University of Colorado Boulder introduced the PIPs Rewards App in 2017-2018. The app tracks and rewards the ‘good’ one does everyday, such as riding the bus, biking, recycling, refilling water ...
- Posted July 30, 2018
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Using Technology to Motivate and Quantify Behavior Change: My Cardinal Green
- Stanford University (CA)
In today’s increasingly technological and personalized world, sustainability professionals must provide opportunities to engage their community in a way that is relevant for them, while also quantifying the impacts ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Infusing sustainability into software engineering education: Lessons learned from capstone projects
- Lappeenranta University of Technology
Sustainable development (SD) has become a millennium challenge for humanity. It has boosted the integration of sustainable, sound practices across different fields (e.g. e-participation, smart transportation, sustainable agriculture). Information ...
- Posted March 12, 2018
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The Internet of Things (IoT) and the Student Experience: Sustainability by Design
- The Sextant Group (PA)
Every day we hear of a new technology that is Internet-connected, enabled, enhanced! If they can afford it, college students are eager first adopters of these gadgets and their applications ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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The Applied Sustainability Collaborative: A Virtual Mechanism for Interdisciplinary Engagement with Community
- Appalachian State University (NC)
This proposal discusses a virtual web-based mechanism that connects existing interdisciplinary campus resources with external partners for building collaborative teams to develop and implement solutions to sustainability problems. Through virtual ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Engaging Tech-Savvy Students in Curricular and Co-Curricular Sustainability Programs for Social and Environmental Change
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
- HTS Enterprise, LLC (GA)
Sustainability education can meaningfully build and enhance relationships with diverse stakeholders while engaging students in learning that promotes social and environmental change. Leaders from Georgia Tech will share their experiences ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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University of California, Climate Lab, Video Series Episode Five: The fight to rethink (and reinvent) nuclear power
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
This is the fifth episode of Climate Lab, a six-part series produced by the University of California in partnership with Vox. Hosted by Emmy-nominated conservation scientist Dr. M. Sanjayan, the ...
- Posted May 22, 2017
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Florida Gulf Coast University Emerging Technologies Institute
- Florida Gulf Coast University (FL)
The FGCU Emerging Technologies institute is an off campus institute designed to facilitate projects and research in regards to sustainable technology. Projects will be geared towards environmental sustainability and renewable ...
- Posted May 15, 2017
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PowerZee – Sustainable Change through User Engagement
- Nanyang Technological University
- ENGIE (TX)
PowerZee (formerly PowerZ) is a smartphone application (‘app’) developed by NTU, along with industry partner ENGIE, for energy conservation and sustainability through user engagement. The application fosters knowledge and nudges ...
- Posted May 11, 2017
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University of California, Climate Lab, Video Series Episode Three: Why your old phones collect in a junk drawer of sadness
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
This is the third episode of Climate Lab, a six-part series produced by the University of California in partnership with Vox. Hosted by Emmy-nominated conservation scientist Dr. M. Sanjayan, the ...
- Posted May 4, 2017
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Humble Bee App
- Cornell University (NY)
Doctoral student Casey Franklin demonstrates the Humble Bee app, which rewards students for sustainable behaviors.She tabled her app at Springfest, which is a celebration of Earth day.
- Posted May 1, 2017
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Techno-philia and Sustainability: Oxymoronic Bedfellows?
- Natural Sustainability (MA)
Modern society is techno-philic- automatically in-love with the next gadget. Yet critiquing technology, merely raising awareness of real positives and negatives, labels you 'technophobic' or a 'Luddite.' Even mainstream sustainability ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Tracking student shower usage in real-time
- University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (MA)
Self-reported shower durations suffer from memory inconsistency and timing accuracy as humans generally have great difficulty telling time internally. Our pre- and post-program self-report surveys also introduce errors due to ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Creating a culture of operational visibility: the data-driven future of campus operations
- Atrius (CA)
Join us to discuss how, by implementing cost-effective energy-efficiency measures, many colleges and universities have the potential to cut their energy bills by 30% or more. Yet campus sustainability practitioners ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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CSUN's Saves 55 Million Gallons per Year Through Various Water Conservation Efforts
- California State University, Northridge (CA)
In an effort to meet the State of California's mandated water conservation targets, California State University, Northridge has made significant strides in reducing water use through irrigation improvements and ...
- Posted Sept. 8, 2016
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AAS in Sustainability Technologies
- Central Carolina Community College (NC)
The Sustainability Technologies curriculum is designed to prepare individuals for employment in environmental, construction, alternative energy, manufacturing, or related industries, where key emphasis is placed on energy production and waste ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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